Two hundred-three large white x Landrace or large white x Chester White x Landrace sows (40 or 41/treatment, avg parity 3.7) were used in a 26 d lactation experiment to determine the valine requirement of high-producing ...

A total of 320 (160 barrows and 160 gilts) 14- to 18-d-old pigs (initially 10.2 ± 2.2 lb) was used to determine the optimal level of dietary lysine needed for the segregated
early-weaned pig. Two diet formulation methods ...

A total of 80 medium-lean growth crossbred barrows (initially 77 lb) was used in a
study to evaluate the effect of manganese
level (24, 44, or 88 ppm) and source (inorganic vs chelated manganese) on growth
performance ...

A total of 442 weanling pigs (initial age and wt of 22 d and 14.4 lb, respectively) was used on a commercial farm in northeast
Kansas to evaluate growth performance with
diets containing a chelated trace mineral
premix ...

A total of 216 pigs (initially 11.7 Ib and
21 d of age) was used in a 35-<1 growth trial to determine the effect of dietary L-carnitine on growth performance and tissue accretion rates for the early-weaned pig when fed a ...

A total of three hundred pigs (initial BW
= 111.6 lb) was used in two identical 70-d
growth trials to determine the effect of feeder design on finishing pig growth performance. Pigs were allotted by initial body weight ...

Two hundred two sows (98 parity 1 and 104 parity 2 sows) were used in a 2 x 3 factorial arrangement of treatments to determine the effect of dietary valine and lysine on sow lactation performance. Treatments included two ...

A total of 416 pigs (initially 9.36 Ib and 15 d of age) was used in a 28-d growth assay
to evaluate the effects of spray-dried plasma
source on starter pig performance. Pigs were
blockedby weight and allotted to one of ...

A total of 178 pigs (initially 10.5 Ib and 19 d of age) was used to compare the effects
of added salt in the Phase II (d 14 to 28
postweaning) diet. Pigs were alloted by sex and inital weight and placed in pens containing ...

A total of 144 pigs (initial body wt of 10.4 lb) was used in a 56-d growth assay to determine the effects of different soybean
preparations on growth performance and cost
of gain in nursery pigs. Experimental diets
were ...

One hundred forty-four high-health, high-lean
growth barrows were used to determine the dietary lysine requirement to maximize growth performance from 40 to 75 lb. The experiment was designed as a randomized
complete ...

Two experiments were conducted to examine the effects of supplementing starter pig diets with zinc oxide and (or) copper sulfate on starter pig performance. In experiment 1, two hundred forty pigs were used in a 28-day ...

Sixty-four pigs (initially 75 lb) were used to determine the effects of dietary betaine,
carnitine, and chromium nicotinate on growth
performance and carcass composition. Pigs
were blocked by sex, ancestry, and weight
and ...

Eighty crossbred gilts (initially 134 lb)
were used in a growth assay to evaluate the effects of supplementing finishing pig diets
with betaine and (or) choline on growth
performance and carcass characteristics.
Betaine ...

The problem of reduced reproductive performance in sows weaned at 5 to 11 days (early weaned) after farrowing was assessed
by comparing estrous and embryonic traits in
these sows and others weaned at 23 to 31 days ...

Two growth trials were conducted to compare the effectiveness of replacing either corn or lactose with modified potato starches in diets for conventionally and early-weaned
pigs. In Exp. 1, 198 pigs (initially 9.4lb and ...

In two separate trials, the use of potato protein (75% CP, 5.9% lysine), as a replacement for spray-dried porcine plasma
(SDPP) in Phase I and for spray-dried blood meal (SDBM) and select menhaden fish meal
(SMFM) in ...

Financial performance measures assist managers in making strategic plans and in
tracking progress in relationship to a firm's
goals. Kansas Farm Management Association
data were used to compute benchmark
financial ...